In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

Joe went to the mall yesterday and found a big tent pitched at the head of the drive. Someone selling fireworks. The sign said discounts

The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

The weekday Mass at 6 a.m. brings old folks out from bungalows around the church. They move like caterpillars

Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine

It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back

Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.

It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,